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Gay abandonment

From
Jonathan Loan

I am startled to read an incredibly offensive paragraph in Mary Midgley’s review of Gary Greenberg’s The Noble Lie(13 September, p 46) – a tacit endorsement of the notion that homosexuality is a disease which was mistakenly deleted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) due to the campaigning of gay rights activists. Midgley also seems to share Greenberg’s lament that it was “the first time in history that a disease was eliminated by the stroke of a pen”.

The editor writes&colon;

• Greenberg examines the cultural history&colon; homosexuality was removed from the DSM for sociopolitical reasons. …